Most depressing film thread

[rondette]

Two I can think of

Dancer in the Dark: ekcellent soundtrack by Bjork, and beautifully shot and filmed, but BY CHRIST the ending is sad. My bloke watched it with me and got pissed off with me for buying it. 'yeah it was good but I NEVER WANT TO SEE IT AGAIN!!!' Why did you buy it?'


and a Hayao Miyazake (he of Spirited Away fame) cartoon called 'Grave of the Fireflies' I was expecting a nice cartoon type affair but it was really. really. depressing. I only have myself to blame for that one.

So what films have you watched that you have switched off/come out of the cinema going ........oh........um........god...life sucks. ?

[milkmonitor]

Requiem for a Dream. It's fucking amazing though. I was speechless for a couple of hours after watching it. It's the most emotionally draining film I've ever seen. You must, must, MUST watch it.

[jode*]

I don't know about depressing, but 2 films that are very disturbing and therefore I cannot watch are:

Sleepers
Watership Down

[flum]

Last Night.

It's a Canadian film that covers the six hours before the world ends. Everyone has known that this is going to happen for some time, and the film simply shows what a variety of people get up to during their last hours on the planet. It's a fantastic film but it doesn't half bring you down after watching it.

[QuincyMD]

The Pianist
The English Patient


Anything that employs Neve Campbell is bound to depress me.

[mikemk]

Dead Ringers, with Jeremy Irons. I saw it at the cinema, my friend and I both said we hated it, then spent all night discussing it.

[audrey notwhatsheusedtobe]

Nill By Mouth

Breaking The Waves - in fact all Lars Von Trier films - they mainly seem to feature young women having the most fundamentally shit time ever.

I also saw areally depressing heroin film years ago, I think it was called Christianne F. It had a David Bowie soundtrack.

[elmsyrup]

Yes, Breaking The Waves. Oh, and Brief Encounter as one of the few films- I can count them on one hand- that has made me absolutely WAIL at the ending.

[audrey notwhatsheusedtobe]

I saw Born on the 4th of July on TV recently. God, I was absolutely BAWLING my eyes out (in between entertaining fantasies of being Tom's nurse and helping him learn to lurve again via the medium of sitting on his face... oh dear I've gone too far haven't I?)

[elmsyrup]

Audrey said:

I saw Born on the 4th of July on TV recently. God, I was absolutely BAWLING my eyes out (in between entertaining fantasies of being Tom's nurse and helping him learn to lurve again via the medium of sitting on his face... oh dear I've gone too far haven't I?)

I laughed audibly.

[QuincyMD]

elmsyrup said:

I laughed audibly.

Poor Tom Cruise, forever destined to only be taken seriously when he makes fluff movies like Top Gun, Days of Thunder, Mission Impossible and the like.

When he tries to be serious and win the Oscar that he so obviously craves (see Born on the 4th July, Last Samuraii and Rain Man) you just can't take him seriously, it's as if John Wayne was suddenly playing Mr Bean. He may be able to get all the correct mannerisms and movement for the character but you can tell it's a performance and that he is forcing it**.

I absolve Mission Impossible 2 from both camps as it is just a very highly stylised piece of poo.


** The female equivelant is Winona Ryder.

[frap]

flum said:

Last Night.

It's a Canadian film that covers the six hours before the world ends. Everyone has known that this is going to happen for some time, and the film simply shows what a variety of people get up to during their last hours on the planet. It's a fantastic film but it doesn't half bring you down after watching it.

God, I saw that one night, very very late. It's scary, very depressing.

[Cultureslut]

MikeMK said:

Dead Ringers, with Jeremy Irons. I saw it at the cinema, my friend and I both said we hated it, then spent all night discussing it.

God, don't. I saw that in the cinema too when it came out and ended up having nightmares for weeks about those gynaecalogical instruments for operating on women. That was a horrific film. Especially the end. Oh god, it's brought it all back !

I found Schindlers List particularly harrowing. And Titus - which I bought second-hand for the sole purpose of a little Johnny Rhys-Meyers perving - won't be making that mistake again.

[Mimternet]

Cultureslut said:

I found Schindlers List particularly harrowing.

Thank-you! I was scared about including this relatively high culture film on here but it really deeply effected me. I'm very grateful for it actually as before watching this I was finding it very hard to find any emotion in film but it broke me down completely in one major emotional release. Now I cry at everything! :-D

[zaffra]

flum said:

Last Night.

It's a Canadian film that covers the six hours before the world ends. Everyone has known that this is going to happen for some time, and the film simply shows what a variety of people get up to during their last hours on the planet. It's a fantastic film but it doesn't half bring you down after watching it.

I saw this twice in the cinema, I loved it, thought it was rather beautiful. I also have the sound track.

I think Saving Private Ryan was one of the most harrowing things I ever saw, I'd never watch it again, it's a gratuitous gore fest.

[flum]

MikeMK said:

Dead Ringers, with Jeremy Irons. I saw it at the cinema, my friend and I both said we hated it, then spent all night discussing it.

I saw that last night, I thought it was totally depressing, especially knowing that Phil Cornwell can do so much better.

[James & The Jaunty Nyasu Vibes]

Mimternet said:

Thank-you! I was scared about including this relatively high culture film on here but it really deeply effected me. I'm very grateful for it actually as before watching this I was finding it very hard to find any emotion in film but it broke me down completely in one major emotional release. Now I cry at everything! :-D

I had that exact thing, but it was "Deep Impact" that did it.

I still watch it now and then, for a certain pre-hobbit actor, but i have to stop before the end, I just can't watch it without bawling.

[milkmonitor]

QuincyMD said:

He may be able to get all the correct mannerisms and movement for the character but you can tell it's a performance and that he is forcing it**.

** The female equivelant is Winona Ryder.

Objection! Girl, Interrupted was one of her best ever performances. She only lost out on an Oscar because she was completely outshone by the lovely Angelina Jolie.

[audrey notwhatsheusedtobe]

QuincyMD said:

Poor Tom Cruise, forever destined to only be taken seriously when he makes fluff movies like Top Gun, Days of Thunder, Mission Impossible and the like.

Hoo's aboot Magnolia? I thought he was excellent and high-larious at playing himself an egomaniac misogynist: RESPECT THE COCK! Indeed.

Aw Tom, you'll always have a special place in my heart UNTIL THE POINT AT WHICH I SEE YOU WEARING A GREY WIG IN 'COLLATORAL'.

Anyhoos, I was sooooo sad when he arrived home in Born on the 4th of July and everyone was really weird with him. Even sadder when the duff wig and 'tash were aired.

Tom and wigs - not a good move.

[monkeyrules]

QuincyMD said:

** The female equivelant is Winona Ryder.

Leave her aloooooone.

Gone With The Wind is depressing, but then Scarlett says "After all, tomorrow is another day."

[Anna]

"Irreversible"- a 9 min (or something) rape scene... I had to hide my face the whole time and my ears too.
and Dancer in the dark, I cried all through that...

[frap]

I didn't find Last Night depressing, but I thought it was very well made and thought out. I found it to be very thought-provoking.

The film that (without fail) makes me cry - Philadelphia. Oh, my, god, the end. The end. Every time. The video appears and I'm in floods. I have a love/hate thing going on with Tom Hanks, but he's amazing in this.

[FWWM]

Up The Junction - for some reason I thought this was really glamorous when I first saw it, although I was about eight or nine at the time.

Dancer In The Dark

Fire Walk With Me - Sheryl Lee is heartbreaking. I thought she deserved an Oscar nomination for this, to be honest.

Little Shop Of Horrors - The bit when Audrey sings about the life she dreams of with Seymour is really sad.

[James & The Jaunty Nyasu Vibes]

FWWM said:

Little Shop Of Horrors - The bit when Audrey sings about the life she dreams of with Seymour is really sad.

You should be glad that they changed the ending, seeing as originally, when she's taken out of the plant, she sings a broken reprise of that...and then dies!

[FWWM]

James said:

You should be glad that they changed the ending, seeing as originally, when she's taken out of the plant, she sings a broken reprise of that...and then dies!

That's horrible! Thank God they did change it - had I seen that I'd probably have been scarred for life....